Turkey: (RE) Army General arrested and charged for coup attempt.

General Ilker Basbug was arrested and jailed on Friday near Istanbul, charged with trying to overthrow Turkey’s government. As Turkey’s former military chief – he retired in August 2010 – Basbug is the highest-ranking officer to become embroiled in the so-called Ergenekon case, a long-running crackdown on alleged dissidents within the country’s military and secular establishment.